{"id":278248,"date":"2026-05-20T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278248\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:12:10","slug":"jacksonville-police-identify-6-year-old-killed-in-cloverdale-road-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278248\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Police identify 6-year-old killed in Cloverdale Road shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 Jacksonville Police have identified<a href=\"https:\/\/katv.com\/news\/local\/jacksonville-police-investigating-fatal-shooting-of-6-year-old-boy?teaserSource=trending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> the 6-year-old boy who was killed in a shooting on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7:30 Sunday evening, Jacksonville Police responded to reports of shots fired in the area of South Highway 161.<\/p>\n<p>According to Captain Ryan Wright with Jacksonville PD, the shooting occurred in the 2000 block of Cloverdale Road. By the time officers arrived on scene, they found the 6-year-old boy, A&#8217;mir Houston, suffering from a gunshot wound. <\/p>\n<p>Houston was in a vehicle with two other adults, neither of whom were injured. He would later die at an area hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Now, police are looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/katv.com\/news\/local\/jacksonville-police-id-suspect-in-shooting-that-killed-6-year-old-on-cloverdale-road-stop-the-violence-bolo-artavius-dontal-johnson-shots-fired-gunshot-wounds-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artavius Johnson<\/a>, who was last seen in a 2012 Hyundai Elantra, which was first spotted on a security camera of a pavilion located in The Meadows neighborhood, just a few hundred yards away from where the shooting took place.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains open and ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 Jacksonville Police have identified the 6-year-old boy who was killed in a shooting on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-278248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}